Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:21:25PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > > >how do i start a program at boot time? > > > > > > simplest to add to rc.local > > > > > > or a

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >how do i start a program at boot time? > > > > simplest to add to rc.local > > > > or as a user - add > > > > @reboot command > > in crontab > > Not really. > >

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >how do i start a program at boot time? > > simplest to add to rc.local > > or as a user - add > > @reboot command > in crontab Not really. The more proper way is to add a startup script in /usr/local/rc.d/ There are note

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-05 Thread n j
> how do i start a program at boot time? I found the following threads helpful: "script to be executed on system startup" http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=116+0+archive/2008/freebsd-questions/20080210.freebsd-questions "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user" http://doc

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-05 Thread Nerius Landys
how do i start a program at boot time? > > What is the exact program you want to start at boot time? Is this a standard program that is typically started at boot time or is it some sort of custom program that is non-standard? If it's a standard program such as the ssh daemon or the apache webse

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how do i start a program at boot time? simplest to add to rc.local or as a user - add @reboot command in crontab -- --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.our